To me, New York City is a place many people want to live and work in. Financial prosperity lurks within the streets of Manhattan and the traffic in this borough is unbelievably congested. In comparison, New York was known as one of the worst places to live 30 to 40 years ago. For someone born after that era, it is very hard for me to believe New York City was a place no one wanted to go to because of the crime and death. I still hear of those incidents nowadays but not nearly to the extent the author portrayed New York in the article. It is just very hard for me to believe.
When I read corporations moved to the suburbs to operate, I was pretty shocked. I can understand why they would move to New Jersey since it is only one state away from New York but not the suburbs of Westchester County, Connecticut. Are the suburbs very populated? I have a perception of suburbs being a place to live and not necessarily a place for corporations to reside. I don’t know if the suburbs are like this today but I am curious to know if any big name corporations are located in the suburbs.
The power breakfasts were a clever idea employed by the ABNY. The ABNY would pay very big name people to come to NYC to give speeches. The speakers brought people who wanted to hear what they would say and connect to those people. Having big name people here brought a better image of the city. ABC News and the “New York Times” covered the speeches bringing more positive publicity to the city.
I thought it was very interesting of how the “Big Apple” became such a defining term for New York City. To market New York City as the place to be at, the advertisers designated everything was big in the city. Everything was bigger and better in New York ranging from the medical facilities, transportation system to financial center. Of course, New York didn’t have the best transportation system as we all know but they marketed it as the best. Although our education system is the best, it is the biggest as Marshall said and they marketed as that at least.
Reading what New York has been through, it is hard to believe the events occurred in New York when we see how it is now. New York still has some its bad areas and remnants from that era but it is less obvious compared to what has been accomplished. I am grateful for the ABNY for doing a good job saving the city. Now New York is known as one of the global cities of the world.
